Combination hanger for hats and jackets



July 8, 1958 s. FRIEDMAN ET AL 2,842,329

COMBINATION HANGER FOR HATS AND JACKETS Fild Sept. 27. 1954 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTORQ FRIEDMAN July 8, 19 58 s. FRIEDMAN ETAL 2,842,329

COMBINATION HANGER FOR HATS AND JACKETS Filed Sept. 27. 1954 i s Sheets-Sheet 2 IN VEN TORS SAM FRIEDMAN BY ARTHUR FRIEDMAN y .1958 s. FRIEDMAN ET AL 2,842,329

COMBINATION HANGER FOR HATS AND JACKETS Filed Sept. 27. 1954 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 1 M1: trf fl fig/l INVENTORS SAM FRIEDMAN BY ARTHUR FRIEDMAN 02 Q AYTJK/Yi) 2,842,329 Patented July 8, 1958 COMBINATION HANGER FOR HATS AND .IACKETS This invention relates to a combination hanger for a hat and jacket.

Summarized briefly, the invention comprises a shank having at its upper end a hook engageable over a support bar, such as one of the bars of the overhead baggage rack of a railroad passenger car, and having at its lower end an upturned hook for receiving'the collar loop of a coat or jacket. Extending from the shank, in a direction opposite that in which the jacket support hook extends, is a hat support hook having a length, and an angularity relative to the shank length, which particularly coacts with the length and the angularity of the coat hook in balancing the device in its rack-suspended position.

Among important objects of the invention are the following: 7

To reduce the article to a size small enough to permit it to be carried in ones jacket pocket;

To permit its manufacture at a minimum cost;

To permit the device to be folded into a size even smaller than that which it has when in use; and

To facilitate its manufacture with a characteristic ease of assembly, and from any of various inexpensive materials, such as wire, fiber, and plastic.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of a railroad car baggage rack, and of the device suspended from the rack and supporting a hat and jacket.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevational view of the device per se, the chain dotted lines showing the hat support hook positioned for carrying the device in the pocket, and the dash-dotted lines showing a supported hat fragmentarily.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view, still further enlarged, on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged, fragmentary longitudinal sectional view on line 44 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse sectional view on line 55 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the device folded and inserted in a carrying case.

Fig. 7 is a view partly in side elevation and partly in longitudinalsection, showing a modified form.

Fig. 8 is a transverse section on line 8 8 of Fig. 7.

Fig. 9 is a side elevational view of a second modification. 7

Fig. 10 is a transverse sectional view on line 1t)10 of Fig. 9. r

Fig. 11 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view on line 1111 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 12 is a side elevation of another modification.

Fig. 13 is an enlarged sectional view on line 13-13 of Fig. 12.

In Fig. 1 there is shown a typical railroad passenger car overhead baggage rack 10, from the innermost bar of which is suspended the hanger 12 constituting the present invention.

The hanger 12 includes a length of heavy wire having a straight shank 14 merging at one end into an approximately semicircular, downwardly turned support hook 16. At its other end shank 14 merges into a short-upturned curved coat hook 18 disposed at an acute angle tov the length of the shank, the shank and the hook 118 defining between them an included angle of approximately twenty degrees.

Mounted on shank 14 intermediate the ends thereof is an elongated wire body 20 having longitudinally spaced sleeves 22 rotatably receiving shank 14.

The sleeves 22 are so proportioned as to frictionally engage the shank 14, thus to prevent free rotation of the sleeves about the axis of the shaft. The purpose of this arrangement is to insure that a hat support hook 24, formed upon the lower end of the body 20, will not tend to rotate about the shank 14 when in the operative position shown in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 2. With respect to the particular construction of the hat support hook, this includes an elongated body portion at right angles to the shank 14, said body portion merging at its outer end into a reversely extended hook element 25.

integrally formed upon the shank intermediate its ends is a lateral projection 26, engaging the lowermost sleeve 22 to support the body 20 and hook 24 for rotation about the axis of the shank intermediate the opposite ends of the shank. Projection 26 may be pinched out of the material of the shank, as best shown in Fig. 4.

As shown in Fig. 5, each sleeve 22 can be formed from a short length of metal soldered or otherwise made rigid at one end with the body 20, and bent into a circular shape with its other end 28 spaced closely from the first-named end.

In use, the hook 16 is engaged over a selected bar of the baggage rack, for example the innermost bar. Hook 18 is turned toward the car window and receives the collar loop of a jacket I. A hat H is then supportable upon the hook 2 4, which faces oppositely from hook 18, outwardly from the window.

The hat includes the conventional sweat band S, and as will be noted from Fig. 2, in positioning the hat upon the hook 24, the sweat band is extended into the elongated slot defined between the body portion of hook 24 and the hook element 25. The free end of hook element 25 is turned downwardly to form a restricted throat at the outlet end of the slot, and the hat band will be lightly but securely engaged between said downwardly turned free end portion of hook element 25, and the adjacent part of the body portion of the hat support hook.

The hooks 18, 24, as previously mentioned herein, are so angled, are of such a length, and are so spaced lengthwise of shank 14, as to be peculiarly well adapted to balance the device in its suspended position. The supported jacket tends to swing the lower end of the device to the left in Figs. 1 and 2 but the hat, though lighter, is higher on the shank and is supported further away, in a lateral direction, from the shank than is the hook 18. As a result, the hat counterbalances to some extent the coat, causing the lower end of the device to swing back toward the window to support the coat close to the window in an out-of-the-way position.

When the device is not inuse, the hook 24 and body 29 can be rotated through about the shank 14 to the dotted line position shown. In this position, the hook 24, hook 18, and hook 16 all extend laterally from the shank in the same direction and are co-planar. The device is thus reduced to a very small size, to permit it 3 to be carried in the handkerchief pocket or side pocket of the jacket. If desired, and as shown in Fig. 6, it can be inserted in a small carrying case 36 of leather or plastic having an end flap 32 and fastener means, 34, before being put in the pocket.

As shown inFig. 2, the angular body portion of book 2d, adjacent its inner end, has a downwardly facing recess 35 adapted to receive the upturned free end of the coat support hook 18, when the parts are in their folded position. Upon rotation of the hat hook, the recess 35in the angular body portion 24 thereof snaps over the top free end of the coat hook 118 in interlocking relation therewith to hold the hat hook in folded position.

In the form of the device shown in Fig. 7, the hanger 36 has a wire shank 38 terminating at its upper end in a support book 40. An oifset 41 its-formed in the shank between its ends, and-carried by the shank below the oifset is a cylindrical molded plastic body 4-2 having an end-to-end bore 44. On the lower end of body 42, and extending laterally from the body is a short, upturned coat hook integrally molded with body 42. A longer hat book 48, approximately four times as long as hook 46, is also integrally formed on body 42 and projects laterally therefrorn in a direction opposite that in which hock 1 6 extends. The top edges of the hooks 46 and 48 have substantially the same angularity to the length of the shank as the corresponding hooks in the first form, and further, the top edge of hook i3 is spaced above that of hook "it? along the length of-the shank. As in the first form, the hook 4-8 has a reversely extending end portion engageaole over the sweat band of the hat.

A head 59, which may be formed by peening, is provided on the lower end of the shank 38.

In the form of Figs. 9-11, the hanger 52 has a flat wire shank portion terminating at its upper end in a support hook 565. At its lower end, portion 54 is pivotally connected at 57 to the flattened angularly offset upper end portion of a cylindrical lower shank portion 58 cooperating with shank portion 54 to define the shank. As shown in Fig. 9, the portion 54- can be swung about the axis of pivot 57 to a folded position shown in dotted lines in this figure. "-lhen so folded, the device is insertable in a carrier or envelope such as that shown at 36 in Fig. 6.

In the form of Figs. 9-l l, a hat hook 69 having a reversely extended free end portion 62, and a coat hook 6d are formed of a single piece of molded plastic material. To reduce the weight of the material without sacrificing strength, said piece may be fashioned with a Web 66 relatively reduced in thickness, and a peripheral bead 68 constituting a reinforcing rib extending the full length of the piece of material at the top and bottom thereof and merging, at opposite ends of the piece, into the rex'ersely curved free end portion 62 of the hat hook and the upwardly extending free end portion of the coat hook 64.

At the juncture of the hat and coat hooks, the piece of plastic material is formed with an upwardly elongated part 69, having a vertical bore receiving the shank portion At its lower end, the shank portion 58 has a head 79 engaging against the underside-of the body of the device.

In Figs. 12 and 13, there is shown another modification generally designated 72, wherein the foldable shank is formed as in Fig. 9. In this arrangement, however, while the body portion of the device has the general shape in side elevation of that shown in the other figures of the drawing and in particular in Fig. 9, said body portion is illustrated as being made from a piece of flat metal material bent to shape. In this arrangement, the

length of flat metal material is formed intermediate its ends with a folded, upwardly extending portion forming a coat book 74, said portion merging along its upper edge into an upwardly elongated part 76. The lower edge of the coat book '74 merges into a downwardly offset portion 78, said portion 78 and the part '76 having vertically aligned openings receiving the shank portion 58.

The portion 78 merges into the lower edge of the hat hook 80, while the part 76 merges into the upper edge of said hat book 80. The upper edge of the hat hook constitutes one end 82 of the length of material, while the lower edge of the hat hook is merged into the other end 84 of said length of material.

As will be noted, in this form of the invention the ends of the length of material are extended in parallelism with each other, and are spaced closely apart, with the end 84 overlying the end 82 to define therebetween the slot in which the sweatband S will engage. The free end of end portion 84 is downwardly extended so as to lightly and frictionally engage the hat band between the end portions 82, .84. Said end portions, it may be noted, preferably have an inherent springability, so as to cause them to be resiliently flexed away from one another when the I sweat band is entered therebetween, thus to improve upon the grip which the device has upon the sweat band.

While we have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of, our invention, it is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes,

and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by United States. Letters Patent is:

A combination hat and coat hanger comprising a shank, a supporting hook onthe ,upper end thereof, a separate hat hook extendingfromthe lower end thereof, and a curved coat hook also extending from the lower end of the shank, said hat hook. including a straight body portion in longitudinal contact with the shankyan angular body portionextending from said straight body, portion and having a recess therein opening downwardly and spaced bearing sleeves on said straightv body portion row tatably embracingthe shank, said hat hookbeing .ro-.1 tatable about the shank between a use position in ,which it extends from the shank oppositely from the coatland supporting hooks, and an inoperative position in 1which 1 it is extended fromthe shank'in the same direction'as and.

is coplanarwith ,the coat and supporting books, the free...

end of the coat book being: disposed in the path of rotarymovementofthe angular portion of the hathook and being adapted to snap into interlocking relation with the recess in said angular portion for holding the hathook r in inoperative position.

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